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EBSCO eBook Collection
Access to over 5,000 full text e-books across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Find full text scholarly and reference books in a variety of subjects, including business, economics, computer science, history, political science, art, literature, and science. In order to read offline or download to a reader, first create an account. Very simply laid out and easy to find whatever resource needed.

Sage Research Methods

A collection of over 1,200 ebooks, plus multi-media resources that all address how to preform research in a wide variety of disciplines in the social sciences. Materials cover both quantitative and qualitative research. Books address using statistics in all fields. Particularly strong coverage in business, education, sociology, and surveying methodologies.

Cambridge Histories Online

The Cambridge Histories include well-known, used and trusted reference volumes, available completely online. They cover various aspects of world history including law, politics, religion, philosophy, science, and economics. CSI purchases titles annually. Use the filters on the right to remove book results for titles that have not yet been published or purchased yet!

Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments

This database provides a peer-reviewed, scholarly collection of pedagogical tools. It is a curated collection of reusable and re-mixable resources for teaching and research. It has assignments, Lesson plans, exercises, links and citations to OER texts, and a carefully curated selection of digital humanities projects, Organized by keyword, the annotated artifacts can be saved in collections for future reference or sharing.

CRF Education (Formerly World 101)

This resource from the Council of Foreign Relations (CRF) provides reliable reference material indented to teach high school and college students about global political science and pressing international issues. It provides teaching resources such as lesson plans, simulations, analysis activities, and other educational materials. Browsable articles and primary sources can help college students understand historical events and their contexts. The council of Foreign Relations is an American Think Tank that aims to be non-partisan.

Social Science Reference Books

Psychology and Behavioral Health by Salem Press; Paul Moglia
Call Number: Reference BF636 .P86 2023

ISBN: 9781637004630

This updated fifth edition includes over 700 articles. All entries have been reviewed by our team of medical experts to ensure that the most up-to-date information on disorders, treatments, drugs, and therapies are included. Dozens of new entries have also been added to the set. Essays range from one to eight pages each and address how culture, ethnicity, and gender affect psychological theory and beliefs. This five-volume encyclopedia covers the history of psychology as an experimental and social science, as an applied health discipline, as a profession, and as a locus for the panoply of preeminent contributors in the field. This volume discusses behaviorism, cognition, perception, cognitive behavioral psychology, psychodynamic psychology, object relations theory, family systems therapy, Gestalt therapy, the biological bases of human behavior, sexuality, personality theory, and comparative therapies of treatment.

The Intersection of Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Community, and the Ecology of Life by Ande A. Nesmith; Cathryne L. Schmitz; Yolanda Machado-Escudero; Shanondora Billiot; Rachel A. Forbes; Meredith C. F. Powers; Nikita Buckhoy; Lucy A. Lawrence; Lacey Sloan (Contribution by)
Call Number: Reference GE220.N47 2021

ISBN: 9783030559502

Publication Date: 2020-10-24

This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities.

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology by Pamela L. Geller (Editor)
Call Number: Reference GN33.8 .R68 2025

ISBN: 9781032298368

Publication Date: 2024-12-23

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology is a comprehensive inter- and intradisciplinary survey of the field of feminist anthropology. It has at its core a focus on raising consciousness and communicating information about gender inequities, suffering, and precarity, as well as furthering a praxis informed by intersectionality, decolonial intent, and compassion. Divided into three clear parts and comprising 34 chapters by an international team of contributors, the Handbook addresses topics in the following key areas: resisting violence communicating creatively labor migration and displacement health and disease reproduction intersectionality decolonial work. The collection assesses the field at an interesting moment in time--one defined by social justice and populist movements gone global; once and future pandemics; extreme environmental disasters; and neoliberalism interrupted. How do gender, sex, and sexuality intersect with these phenomena? In answer, contributors to this volume put a heterogeneous anthropological approach in place; they advance interdisciplinary conversations, as well as renew a commitment to intradisciplinary dialogue. The Routledge Handbook of Feminist

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race by Naomi Zack (Editor)
Call Number: Reference HT1521 .O94 2017

ISBN: 9780190933395

Publication Date: 2019-01-01

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars of contemporary issues in African American philosophy and philosophy of race. These original essays encompass the major topics and approaches in this emerging philosophical subfield that supports demographic inclusion and diversity while at the same time strengthening the conceptual arsenal of social and political philosophy. Over the course of the volume's ten topic-based sections, ideas about race held by Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche are supplemented by suppressed thought from the African diaspora, early twentieth-century African American perspectives and Native-, Asian-, and Latin-, American views.

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